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Once upon a time, a cat fell hopelessly in love with her master.

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He was a very handsome young man and she longed to marry him.

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The cat prayed to Aphrodite, the goddess of love:

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‘Oh mighty Goddess, please change me into a woman.’

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<v Paragraph>The goddess heard the cat’s prayer</v> and granted her wish.

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Straightway, she became a beautiful young woman

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with green eyes and long, thick tabby hair.

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The young man fell hopelessly in love with her and soon there was a wedding.

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The goddess looked down at them and smiled to herself.

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‘I wonder,’ she thought,

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‘how much of her is cat and how much of her is woman.’

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<v Paragraph>On the morning after the wedding night,

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Aphrodite reached into their bed-chamber and dropped a mouse onto the floor.

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It darted past the bed.

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The woman saw it out of the corner of her eye.

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She jumped out of the bed,

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ran across the room,

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seized the mouse in her mouth, gave it a shake

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and then climbed back into bed.

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Her husband looked at her, wide-eyed with astonishment.